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Under her belted coat she wore a middy blouse, and when she saw Lieutenant Cecil Hamilton, with his eager eyes not unlike her own, his eyes were young and inquiring she reached into a pocket of the blouse and dabbed her lips with a small stick of cold cream. Cold air has a way of drying lips. He caught her at it, and she smiled. It was all over for him then, poor lad!
This unhooked the tail, and Bob galloped out of the shop, bearing his prize to me, who, with the little middy, remained in the street convulsed with laughter.
"You'll not want it for a short while, I daresay?" he asked. "Captain Barepoles " "Skipper, lad, I don't like to be cap'ned." "Well, Skipper Barepoles," said the middy with much solemnity, "I always pay my debts of honour on the spot, and I expect gentlemen who bet with me to do the same." Haco grinned. "But I an't a gentleman," said he, "an' I don't set up for one."
The middy is jilted by his FRENCH MARQUEES, whom he 'did adore, and in his wrath he recommends himself to the wealthy widow Bevisham, concerning whose choice of her suitors there is a doubt: but the middy is encouraged to persevere: 'Up, up, my pretty middy; take a draught of foaming Sillery; Go in and win the uriddy with your Radical artillery.
"It was touch and go, sir, that's sartin," replied Bob; "for if the old gentleman had not been satisfied, he is so obstinate that the match would have been broken off at the church door. Well, sir, I always said that you were the best to get out of a scrape that I ever knew when you were a middy, and you don't appear to have lost the talent; it was well managed."
"I shall hand him over to the proper officers, and they can do what they please with him," replied the middy. "I don't want him: do you, mother?" "What should I want of him?" "Perhaps you want him, Florry?" asked Christy of his sister. "I am sure I don't," she replied, pouting. "Perhaps you will want him when you have seen him," added the middy roguishly.
"Come on, then, gen'lemen. You'll get a bit wet, but there's a long climb arterwards up the hot rocks in the sunshine, and you'll be 'most dry 'fore you get home." "Oh, never mind the water," cried the middy. "My uniform's spoilt. I'm ready to do anything to get out of here." "Will you go first, sir?" cried Tom Bodger. "No, you found the way in," was the reply, "so lead the way out." "Right, sir.
He shuffled to the boat's bow, and with a mighty voice bawled to Burnes: "Slack up a little, Middy! I want to come aboard the tug." The words floated back to Fledra, and she half-rose, but again sank to the deck. Lon was leaving her alone with Lem! The tug stopped, and the momentum of the barge sent it close to the little steamer.
Seaman Morton was never heard from again, and so did not come in for his share of the excitement. However, it was not destined to last long, for the football season was at its height and every blue-clad middy thought, talked and dreamed about the Navy team. A good team it was, too, and a good year for the Navy.
There was no difficulty in picking up a flat piece of slate, and then a fresh candle was cut free from the bunch, its end melted, and stuck on to the stone, and then the lads looked at one another. "Look here," said the middy; "I wish I wasn't such an awful beast." Aleck laughed. "You don't look one," he said. "No, but I feel one.
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